To SQL or NoSQL? That’s the database question But as technological lines blur, there's not always a clear-cut answer.

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale.

Relational (SQL) databases store data in tables with strictly-defined relationships between tables. Non-relational (NoSQL) databases are more flexible and allow for less organized and less ...

SQL history Before there was SQL, databases had tight, navigational programming interfaces, and typically were designed around a network schema called the CODASYL data model. CODASYL (Committee on ...

The term 'NoSQL' is widely acknowledged as an unfortunate and inaccurate tag for the non-relational databases that have emerged in the past five years. The databases that are associated with the NoSQL ...

Forget silicon - SQL on DNA is the next frontier for databases A couple of years back, even researchers would wave off using DNA to store data as something too futuristic to have any practical value.

To find the database name you can pipe the output of Get-AzureSqlDatabasServer directly to Get-AzureSqlDatabase. You can see here that I'll be using a database name of myazuredatabase. [Click on image ...

Leaving the legacy world of multiple specialized databases and instead, embracing this third era of databases can simplify your enterprise data stack, eliminate database sprawl and consolidate ...